Jan Hausbrandt’s Photograph Collection

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Resistance to the [Communist] Polish People’s Republic regime

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Jan Hausbrandt

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A remarkable chronicle of daily life in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s was captured by Jan Hausbrandt – photojournalist and artist-photographer. The collection shows the true face of communism: the long lineups, the drabness of the streets, laborers at work, poverty and drunkenness, but also hope, joy, and faith.

Young people from the ‘punk’ subculture at a camp site, Sztutowo, 1983

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People gathered at Plac Zamkowy (Castle Square) in Warsaw after the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, May 1981

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Strike by the cadets from the Higher Officers’ School of Firefighting at 52/54 Słowackiego St. in Warsaw, December 2, 1981

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Holy mass during the Warsaw Medical Academy students’ strike regarding the registration of the Independent Students’ Association, Warsaw, February 16, 1981

Street vending in front of the ‘Sezam’ Co-op Department Store on Marszałkowska Street in Warsaw, 1985

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A ‘Solidarity’ Activist

Donated by: Jan Perejczuk

Jan Perejczuk was an important activist of NSZZ ‘Solidarność’ [Independent Self-Governing Trade Union ‘Solidarity’] in the Bydgoszcz region from its very beginnings until the collapse of the communism.

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On Guard for Free Speech

Donated by: Zenon Szendo

Zenon Szendo was an activist of NSZZ „Solidarność” [Independent Self-Governing Trade Union ‘Solidarity’] in Lodz, KPN [Confederation of Independent Poland] and the Committee for the Defense of those Imprisoned for their Beliefs (Komitet Obrony Więzionych za Przekonania) and co-creator of the Provisional Council for t

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Słupsk Patriot – Edward Müller

Donated by: Edward Müller, Piotr Müller, Marta Müller, Wojciech Rajkowski

Edward Müller was born and raised in a subjugated, communist Poland. He was a Solidarity activist in Słupsk and one of the co-founders of the Regional Resistance Committee [Okręgowy Komitet Oporu] in the city. For his his anti-communist resistance he was fired from his job, detained, arrested twice, and incarcerated.

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